The difference between a Senior Developer and a Junior Developer is that a Senior will admit when they have no clue about what you're asking.

Experts have no problem with saying "I don't know."

The reason we trust senior developers is that they have a proven track record, and also will tell you when something is new and they don't know it (although rare), and then they go and try to figure it out if they can. If they cant figure it out they will still tell you they cant fix it.

AI doesn't know whether its telling the truth or not. It doesn't know what it doesn't know. I just has training data that tells it which answer is likely correct.
Fundamentally it doesn't have the ability to know its own limitations, no training data can fix that. Judgement and Wisdom comes from experience, experience comes from the consequences of getting it wrong. AI faces no consequences for its answers as such it will never have real Judgement or Experience, it can only borrow the experience of others through training data.

For Humans lying about what you know generally only happens when you're in a dysfunctional job environment that punishes honesty or you lied to get the job you have and you're not qualified. Also not knowing or misunderstanding is very different than making shit up.

Part of the reason AI cant really bring work savings on anything non-trivial is if I need to sign off on something I really need to check and understand everything AI tells me, line by line (which in many cases takes as long or longer than writing it myself). If I'm not doing that I shouldn't be trusted to sign off on stuff. Bluntly this means AI agents running against production is an absolute no go (Just ask Lemkin: https://www.zdnet.com/article/... ). Automation code written by AI, verified and signed off by a human admin can be run against prod, but only after being tested against dev / test.

Humans are pretty good at recognizing when they are dealing with something new or unknown (or at least smart enough to not try random sh!t), where we suck is predictable repetitive stuff, and keeping large data sets in our brains.

Hallucinations are "training data gaps" (if we're nice) or at worst trying random answers from known training data when dealing with something new or uncertain, rather than say "I don't have a clue".

Bluntly I think in _some_ situations AI and humans can complement each other, when used responsibly and as a tool in a constrained solution space.

When you're ready to have AI sign off on your medical treatments and drug orders or any other matter of safety without a human in the loop let me know... (then we can either admit AI might be ready or commit you to the asylum).

This smells like other objectives...
Seems to me there are corporations / people that want to limit / restrict access to 3D printing in general...
I could see bunch of anti "right to repair" guys thinking... maybe if we tap into this ghost gun thing we can get all these cheap 3D printers off the streets and rather than repairing stuff people will have to buy new stuff.

Its right up there with age gates... verifying user age at the OS level... ( https://www.eff.org/issues/age... (EFF resources) )

Think of the Children!!!

Rights and freedoms are eroded slowly and one at at time. This has _nothing_ to do with gun safety and everything with interfering with your rights to do what you want with your printer.

Given many of these printers run on open firmware, and open hardware, one arduino download later and any cert problem is solved.

This is western Capitalists trying to blame the Chinese for the fact they sold us out.

The sad reality is that the west has stopped investing in new tech and innovation.

It started with outsourcing the manufacturing of non essential parts... that could be made at lower cost in Asia (aka more profit for the Capitalists).
As the Chinese learned how to do this with coaching and investment by those same western capitalists they figured out how they could do more complex things.
At this point the greedy western Capitalists outsourced the manufacture of critical and essential parts to China.
After this they found out they could no longer find the talent they needed to design hard to manufacture or material / technology specific harder to make components in North America (as those skills are built during the intereaction of designers with manufacturing).
Again the Chinese had progressed and invested in training engineers etc... at this point the logical _profitable_ last step was to move some of the design and sub-assemblies to China.

Frankly the capitalists sold our asses and hand our tech to the Chinese. They were just hungry and willing to work harder and as such easier to exploit for profit.

The Capitalists now realize they no longer control the process and the Chinese have them by the balls. At this point they are worried what the rest of us will do to them when we finally figure out how badly they screwed us, so they are trying to blame the Chinese a possibly start a war to bomb the Chinese back into the stone age.

Capitalists will sell you the rope you hang them with.

Make no mistake about this. This is all about "MBA" strategic choices and quarterly thinking that lead us to this dependence and lack of investment in research, innovation and education. Reality is even in the past many of the best and brightest have come from outside of North America. At the time we still recognized that and took care to integrate those people and make them part of our society. Now with restrictive immigration those people will go else where as well.

You don't need to look far to figure out who has sold you out. Just look who the billionaires are that aren't paying their fair share of taxes either.

There's a much deeper potential Ethical Holly Shit here, this is a big can of worms being opened. That of synthetic (read "made up") with unverifiable claims to credibility, through AI and a real data set.

The reason medical data is needed in research is to _verify_ the effectiveness of treatments, drugs, or patterns that are later ultimately used to justify treatment plans or decisions about what medicines to legalize, prescribe and use.

Feeding real data to AI and then asking it to "make up a data set that's the same" breaks the link between real hard data collected by physicians and clinicians, which is _verifiable_ and _trustable_. There is no way aside from repeating the work with real data sets to verify that the data in the "synthetic data" set is representative of the real world.

If this synthetic data set is used to make decisions, there will be a significant risk that can be introduced in the AI process, as 1) there is no verification possible and 2) the potential to "ask AI" to "help clean up the data" raises potentials for either open abuse, or accidental skewing of the data. Even non malicious but hopeful AI prompts may cause the AI to deliver the results the researcher or pharmaceutical company "wants to find".

That could lead to incorrect results or desired or not which would lead to bad decisions about patient treatment or diagnosis potentially leading to wasted money at best and patient harm at worst.

Ethically, I think this is standing unroped on a slippery slope uphill of a cliff...

but he'll happily take "investors" and help with his crypto coin $Trump.

Transactional presidents are so much easier to deal with if you're a billionaire crypto bro...

It's also convenient if you could use a pardon.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...

As a licensed Engineer in North America, who also has a Business degree, having working both in Canada and in Europe, as well as having exposure to China through travel...

Engineering as a profession has the same recognition as law and medicine in Europe... In China, Engineering is neck in neck with Medicine. In North America and in the UK engineers are looked down on by other professionals and management.

When I worked in Europe as an Engineer in tech companies Management was made up of Engineers that had worked there way up, many of them had Phds in Engineering. Engineers in society have good paying jobs and its a desired profession.

Decisions were made not just based on quarterly financials, but with leaders that understood innovation, value, and technology as well as the financials at the table.
Planning and R&D in Germany where I worked and in China have budgets and time frames of years if not decades. Companies compete not on cost but on quality and innovation.

I think North America is being left behind at the moment in a number of areas, and will continue to do so until it starts thinking long term again and investing in science and engineering talent and projects.

This David Mayer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

He certainly is well enough positioned to perhaps have someone working to make sure he's forgotten.

Anyone facing this issue where they work? What have you looked at?

(fingers crossed first post).

Tell him to go to apply to university in Germany. It's free including for foreign nationals, and they often provide a stipend to cover cost of living.

Hard to believe but, Germany does this as they get the best and brightest, and have figured out that if just 1/2 stay 5 years the contributions they make to the Germany Economy pay back the cost of education.

https://www.studying-in-german...

There are literally hundreds of emulator boxes.

I'm not buying an overpriced low quality one from the Trump shitposter. Palmer Luckey can fuck himself.

I think the SourceForge acquisition was the closest riff to an IPO ever had. The numbers were never high enough or compelling enough for Slashdot to IPO. The D ice, B IZ X, and Stac k Exch a nge acquisitions seem to be the only financial action Slashdot will ever see.

Edit: The correct spellings of one or more of the entities above triggered the lameness filter -- I guess some topics shall not be discussed on /. Wondering how long this post will be up after I press Submit...

It'll be interesting to witness what happens to Reddit after IPO. I suspect this might be an IPO engineered for the investors to cash out as much as possible, and we'll see a return to private ownership and all outstanding shares bought by some entity within 3-5 years. Maybe as part of Springer or some other media conglomerate.

Cheers!

It's been a while. I wonder what the criteria will be. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth VA Linux went public, Slashdot was part of the IPO frenzy, and some of us got the equivalent to ~$12k worth of VA Linux shares, free to trade after 6 months. The criteria back then was that our email had to appear on a Linux kernel or widely used tool commit for the distribution VA Linux used in their systems. It wasn't life changing money, but I remember it fondly because up until then all the payment or bonuses I ever received were for closed source, commercial or enterprise software development.

It'd be interesting to see what criteria Reddit uses for their IPO shares recipients. If they go by karma alone there'll be quite a few OnlyFans content creators who'll see the green. Hopefully it's some combination of karma, actual participation, account age, etc. in addition to whatever securities laws restrictions are in place (e.g. for VA Linux all recipients had to be US-based).

Cheers!

"....China turns to nuclear power to try to meet carbon emissions goals....."

No, this is not why. They are not trying to meet any carbon emission goals. They have no goals, other than growing the economy and making it sanction proof.

Most American military believes that China's air quality has gotten so bad that the Chinese government is afraid of creating the first air quality government overthrow.

They are trying to control carbon emissions to keep from being defenestrated.

Where does this crazy idea come from, that the Chinese are fully sold on the climate emergency

You can meet carbon goals for reasons other than the environment.

Where do people get this wishful thinking about China from?

Do you actually get a towel to wring while you plead, for authenticity?

There's no such thing as "americanesium."

"But but I just took the"

nobody cares. Your comment doesn't make sense, and theirs does.

Duh. This is a variant of a typical "Nigerian prince" scam.

They actually made the ship. It's a running nuclear reactor that delivers power in the real world. No Nigerian Prince scam has ever built a working nuclear reactor, little buddy.

The completely unreasonable proposition is a feature to filter out everyone, but the most moronic investors.

Uh. The Chinese government is doing this, and isn't taking investors. Be less paranoid.

What's unreasonable about putting a nuclear reactor on a ship? America's been doing this since 1952. It's 2023.